Wednesday, April 1, 2015

TIBCO Analytics - One Year Later

The past twelve months have been a wild ride in the world of
business intelligence and big data, full of acquisitions (including
Jaspersoft’s addition to the TIBCO Software family) and innovations. Since forming
TIBCO Analytics, we’ve entered an extraordinarily important time for the
business and all those customers who’ve placed their trust in us as their partner
for data analysis and reporting.Because
of this trust placed in us, and the innovative tools at our disposal as part of
TIBCO Software, we have a unique opportunity to deliver best-in-class value
with each of our tools.

TIBCO Analytics brings together two market-leading
platforms:TIBCO Spotfire, the
award-winning platform for data discovery, analysis and visualization, and
TIBCO Jaspersoft, the award-winning platform for embeddable reporting and
analysis.These two platforms solve very
different analytics problems and for different types of customers.Even the very fundamental aspects of these
two platforms and the uses for which they are best suited are complementary, which
becomes a growing point of emphasis as we aim to deliver increased value for
our customers with each product release.

Through the combination of these products and formation of a
business unit focused exclusively on Analytics, we have become one of the
largest business intelligence tool providers in the industry, and boast one of the
largest customer bases as well.Our
significant level of investment in Analytics allows us to solve some of the
most important, new analytics problems facing our customers.

We’ll solve these problems through the continued improvement
and innovation of both primary platforms (Spotfire and Jaspersoft), and we’ll
do so in ways that leverage the strengths of one platform to help the other
become more powerful in solving the needs of its core customer.In other words, we’ll use Jaspersoft-centric
features and techniques to help make Spotfire an even more capable data discovery
and visualization tool, thereby affordably reaching the broadest possible
audience of users, driving greater value in a customer’s investment.

In addition, we’ll use Spotfire-centric features and
techniques to help make Jaspersoft an even more capable embedded reporting and
analysis tool, enabling more powerful and visual use of data, which also drives
greater value in a customer’s investment.

Our longer-term strategy for our Analytics platforms centers
on cloud architecture and cloud-based delivery.Our aim is to literally re-imagine business analytics – the way it is
designed, developed, delivered, deployed and consumed – to create a seamless
spectrum of web-based analytic services, which can enable anyone to have a
personalized or tailored experience that is perfectly fit-for-purpose. It’s an
exciting vision and, when we discuss this directly and in more detail with our
customers, it never fails to capture their excitement as well.

I look forward to this TIBCO Analytics team describing this
vision in more detail for you and then gaining your feedback and engagement so
you might join us on this amazing step in the journey toward next-generation
data analytics.